There are three levels in the physiotherapy course offered in Cuba. The first level is called basic technician and is attained after one year of intensive hands-on training. The second level, (superior) technician is attained at the end of the third year. If you continue to the fifth year you would complete the third and final level which is called 'Licensing'.

Cuban specialists are developing polymeric membranes that could be used as artificial skin for patients with third-degree burns.

Some travellers from Ontario and Alberta have been bringing more than just tourist dollars to countries such as Cuba — they're also packing badly needed medical supplies.

A new hip prosthesis is being used in hospitals throughout Cuba as part of a wide range of improvements being undertaken by the Cuba government in the Public HealthCare System.

Rodrigo Alvarez Cambra, president of the Cuban Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology, called Cuba a world reference for experts from developed countries.

The 18th International Congress, Orthopedics 2006, opens Tuesday at the Plaza America convention center in Varadero, Cuba.

The Cuban Immunoassay Center has developed new testing kits to detect diseases in newborns.

Cuba will bring its free eye surgery program to Africa and Asia in the coming months, expanding a campaign that has restored eyesight to hundreds of thousands of poor people in 28 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The graduation ceremony at the Victoria de Giron Preclinical Sciences Institute, Cuba boasts an additional 2,314 healthcare professionals who received diplomas along with 1,593 young students from 26 countries.

Cuban doctor Estrella Torres treats a Haitian boy suffering from tuberculosis at a hospital in Cange, August 9.

The Latin American who has lived longest with a heart transplant, 20 years, Cuban Hector Despaigne Guillen has died from septic shock.

Panamanian First Lady Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos visited Friday Havana’s modern Ramon Pando Ferrer Ophthalmology Institute.

Cuba s Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer and Guatemalan President Oscar Berger have inaugurating a modern ophthalmology center in this Central American nation

The Ernesto Che Guevara Cardiac Centre is 20 years old today and is all heart. People here —patients and healthy people alike—revere this palace of health, one that is always caring after your heart

Cubans’ life expectancy is now 77 years, more than a year over the indicator prevailing in developed countries

The eastern Cuban province of Granma presently has an infant mortality rate of 5.6 per 1,000 live births.

Over 1,400 Guatemalans have undergone ophthalmologic treatment in Cuba as part of Operation Miracle

The great investments being carried out in the health sector in the Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus have helped the increase of medical services at community level

The application of modern technology for early detection of neoplastic diseases has allowed Cuba to attain remarkable results in fighting breast cancer

Members of the US-Cuba 17th Pastors for Peace Caravan, sponsored by the Inter-religious Foundation for the Community Organization-Pastors for Peace, received information on Cuba’s advances in treating autism.

Cuban pediatrics, that enjoys international prestige, will share its achievements at telematica Infomed web site.

Yusleidis Montoya, 13, is recovering very well after a complex operation in the William Soler Hospital

The Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center celebrates 20 years as a prestigious Cuban research institution in human, animal and plant health.

Cuba has made a scientific breakthrough in creating a "plantibody" for the production of the hepatitis B vaccine.

Participants in the Science and Technology Forum of the National Bioproduct Center (BIOCEN) reported that three therapeutical products created by that entity were registered and are being successfully used in treating asthma.

Cuba has 332,000 teachers, one for every 36 inhabitants, the best such indicator in the world, said Education Minister Luis Gomez speaking at the closing ceremony of the 2005-2006 school year in eastern Las Tunas province.

A genetic engineering institute in Cuba has registered an antibody that can be used in the production of an anti-hepatitis B vaccine

The Government Control Center for the Quality of Medicines (CECMED) announced that a new Cuban product has been approved by the Health Registry in Havana which authorizes the use of new products.